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Images of the Day

Selected by picture editor Frank Miller

Mon 22 Jan 2018

APOCALYPSE NOW: Flames rising from the burning of excess hydrocarbons at the Nahr Bin Omar natural gas field, north of the southern Iraqi port of Basra. Iraq will is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with US energy company Orion to tap gas at the oil field in the south of the country, the petroleum ministry said. Photograph: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty Images

PERFECT: Exhibition designer David Meaney adds some final touches to a stunning new exhibition of fashion at the Little Museum of Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times

LIMBERING UP: Ross Brown, Cork's 96FM, Alex O'Shea, Cork City Fire Brigade, Deirdre Cotter, Mairead O'Connell, and KC of Cork's 96Fm at the launch of the 2018 Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon. It will take place on June 3rd. Photograph: Cathal Noonan

AND THEY'RE OFF: A flock of common teal fly across a wetland on a winter day on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Photograph: Danish Ismail/Reuters

DUCK AND COVER: A farmer herding his flock of ducks on a canal at the outskirts of Hue in central Vietnam. Photograph: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images

SINGIN' IN THE SNOW: A man holding an umbrella makes his way in the heavy snow at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

LOOKOUT: The snow-covered radio tower, at the "Feldberg" peak in the Taunus mountains, western Germany. Photograph: Andreas Arnold/AFP/Getty Images

ROCKY: A woman takes pictures on a bank of the Yenisei River covered with snow and hoarfrost, with the air temperature at about minus 34 degrees, outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

HAD ENOUGH: Striking prison guards demonstrate in front of Nice prison, France, as part of a nationwide movement to call for for better safety and wages. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

SYRIA: A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighter uses a drone at a monitoring point near the Syrian village of Qilah, in the southwestern edge of the Afrin region close to the border with Turkey. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

TIME'S UP: A woman poses with a message as hundreds of activists marched to protest repeated failures to apply laws that women must hold at least a third of government seats in Nairobi, Kenya. The National Assembly has 349 MPs, there are only 76 women. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

WE'RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BUCKET: A shop owner climbs a ladder with a bucket of water as he tries to extinguish a fire that broke out at local market in Calcutta, India. According to media reports, 20 fire engines were deployed to the site, and it took more than 12 hours for the firefighters to bring the blaze under control. The market was evacuated and two men died. Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

LEFT BARE: People arrive on the departmental road crossing the "zone a defendre" of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, outside Nantes to clear the barricades that block the way, a few days after the French government's official decision to abandon the Grand Ouest Airport project. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images